Re: 9.0 release notes done

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-03-20T18:33:14Z

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2010/3/20 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> I'd favor a beta sooner rather than later even if some stuff is still in
>> flux.  This particular release needs as much testing as possible, and
>> 10x as many people will try a beta as an alpha.
>
> Well, the reason they are willing to try a beta is that it's supposed to
> be more stable than an alpha.  If we pull back on our stability
> commitments (like "no further initdbs expected") we'll just discourage
> people from trying betas in future.

I agree with Tom - two weeks are nothing against to an lost of credit and trust.

Pavel
>
>                        regards, tom lane
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